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CARDIFF WATCH<br />
BRIAN DURBIN<br />
(Bristol Evening Post Saturday 29th October 76)<br />
Brian Durbin is the latest Minehead player<br />
to attract the attention of a league club. Several<br />
have been checking on in form striker Jimmy<br />
Jenkins, but this week Cardiff City made an inquiry<br />
about Durbin after seeing him play against Merthyr.<br />
They were planning to watch him again today in<br />
the FA Trophy game with Bridgwater Town .<br />
The 22 year old midfield player was signed<br />
from Taunton Town at the start of the season for<br />
£1000. He lives in Bristol and was formerly on City’s<br />
books.<br />
“I’m not surprised at Cardiff’s initerest”<br />
said Minehead’s player manager Bob Boyd. “His<br />
distribution is immaculate and he can always be<br />
relied upon to get 10 goals a season from midfield.<br />
Minehead face Geoff Hurst’s formidable<br />
Telford United side on Monday evening in a home<br />
Southern League Premier Division match. Telford<br />
go into top position if they can win at Irnham Road.<br />
Minehead AFC - (Errea Somerset County Premier League) Page 24<br />
I REMEMBER WHEN........<br />
A “Down Memory Lane” feature which will run for the next 2 home<br />
programmes at least, detailing a short part of the club’s history during November<br />
and December 1976 (just over 36 years ago), which I hope will be of interest to<br />
home supporters and of course the players. Having become members of the<br />
Southern League at the start of the 1972-73 season, Minehead made steady progress in their four<br />
seasons in the higher grade, finishing 5th in 1972-73, followed by fourth in 1973-74 and narrowly<br />
missing being promoted in 1974-75 when they finished third. The 1975-76 season proved to be the<br />
most successful season in the club’s history so far when as well as being particularly successful in<br />
the FA Trophy, the blues won the Southern League Merit Cup by scoring the highest number of goals<br />
throughout the three divisions. The icing on the cake was in winning the Championship of the First<br />
Division South, gaining promotion to the highest position outside of the football league, the Southern<br />
League Premier Division.<br />
In between all this excitement, the club had an “above average” FA Cup run, much documented<br />
since. Having knocked out Bridport (away 4-2), Barnstaple Town (away 2-1) and neighbours Taunton<br />
Town (home 2-1) the blues were drawn against fierce cornish rivals Falmouth in the FA Cup 4 th<br />
Qualifying Round.<br />
The feature starts the week before the game at Falmouth’s Bickland Park, November 1976…..<br />
JENKINS TEASES<br />
TELFORD<br />
MINEHEAD 1 TELFORD UNITED 0<br />
Minehead gained their second home<br />
win in the Sourthern League’s Premier Division<br />
when they beat second-placed Telford under<br />
the Irnham Road floodlights on Monday night.<br />
Minehead were always quicker to the ball and<br />
it was not until the final 20 minutes that Telford<br />
were able to produce something like their true<br />
form.<br />
Minehead, nevertheless, deserved<br />
their narrow victory with a goal scored after 18<br />
minutes when Derek Bryant crashed the ball<br />
home from short range as he raced onto a low<br />
cross from Jim Jenkins.<br />
Indeed, Telford never really contained<br />
Jenkins who had another outstanding match<br />
and continued his form of causing havoc to<br />
defences this season. A brilliant one-handed<br />
save from Telford reserve keeper, Mick Bebb,<br />
after seven minutes play also denied Bryant of
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